The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-01-22

but, If the slide is good and the girls fat
and pretty, and they hug you tight because
they're afraid, you feel as IL you wouldn't
care if you ran into snow bank or turned
a somersault over the North Pole. Iurrah
for a tobog.
\ calamity more terrible than the pesti.
lence which waketh abroad in the night,
is threatening the two great cities of New
York and Brooklyn, and that is coal famine,
Here are two millions of people, every one
of whom needs his share of warmth in this
bitter winter weather. To the rich It means
simply a little inconvenience and hardly
that; to the poor 1t means absolute misery
and suffering untold. When coal is $500
a ton, the poor man who buys IL by the
pailful, pays the man at the corner grocery
ten.-should it rise to $1,000, pail of coal
will cost him thirty or forty cents, furnish
ing Just enough of fuel to cook his miserable
meal, with no margin to keep his vile and
his children from freezing. The coal Kings
refuse to give tie miners an extra twenty
five cents ton, but they are quite willing
to tax the consumers an extra five dollars
ton. BY a single resolution of a half
dozen men seated IN their comfortable
offices, forty or fifty millions of dollars
were added TO the already enormous profits
of these coal plutocrats. If eyer there was
a case foc government intervention this is
| one of them. and these heartless capitalists
should be taught that the poor man has
some rights, which even coal Kings arc
bound to respect. ....
The death of the Reverend j. Halstead
Carroll in Minnesota, closes sorrowfi1ly G
long and stormy life. A few Years ago Mr.
Carroll was pastor Of the First Reformed
Church in Brooklyn, and during his pastor
ate his name was mixed uD with number
Of scandals, which led to his expulsion from
the pulpit. He went to Ncwburg, anC
while there again got into trouble, and wa
forced to pack his satchel and leave. Ii
the west he was equally unfortunate, til
he was driven from the ministry, but after
wards succeeded in getting church il
Minnesota, and died estranged from all o
his former friends.
Doctor Carroll was blessed with mos
engaging presence, splendid talents, and
magnetic manner, which won him friend
wherever he went; but he was cursed witt
an overwccning vanity and self-conceit
which eventually led him to ruin. Th
son of an eminent clergyman, favorite G
fortune, with brilliant and promisin
start in life, he became a neral wreck
drifted hither and thitherby his own mere
less passions, and instead of being borne t
an honored gave, by hundreds of weepin
friends, he is now only remembered wit
humiliating sorrow by the church he di!
graced and the people he BETRAYED.
The society for the prevention of cruelt
to children has scored another victory
procuring the sentence of Mrs. Melvill,
the cruel Brooklyn woman, who kept he
orphan niece tied to the floor for nire Ion
months, besides almost starving her
death. The wife got eff with year in IL
penitertiary, while the husband and sol
> who sood quietly by and witnessed Il
horrd atrocity, day after day, escaped ar
. punishment at all. Still it is something
= know that there is in this community, a
association of men and women, to who
the mute and suffering look of even dun
I animal will not appeal in vain.
D The weather has been decidedly rough
cold, snowy and disagrecable.
n The recent celebration of Cornelius Va
e derbilt's branch of the Railroad You
" Mems Chris Association has stirred |
II a number of rich men in our sister city
e Brooklyn, where l see they organized
It Young Mems Hebrew Association, mo
% elled on the plan of the Y. NJ. G. "A.
e number of wealthy Hebrews have take
1t hold OF the work, and the chances are tn
'f Associations will be formed in all the pri
cpal cities of the Union. This will be {
1t inestimable boon to the large army of yom
IL Hebrew men who travel for mercanti
houses. The Brooklyn branch, which "
i, be the mother Association, will in d
"a time have a magnificent building wi
b. lectures, library, entertainments, batl
as gymnasium, and all the appliances
lie modern civilization. 1t is ssfe TO say, fro
III the gentlemen who have business in han
Mt that the Hebrew Y NJ. C.. A. will not bC
IN whit behind those of their Christian brot
n; ers. BROADBRIM.